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Burn vs Roll - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between burn and roll

is that burn is an intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult while roll is to be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as {{term|ecstasy|lang=en}}).

In intransitive terms the difference between burn and roll

is that burn is to sunburn while roll is to spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.

In transitive terms the difference between burn and roll

is that burn is to waste (time) while roll is to beat up.

In transitive slang terms the difference between burn and roll

is that burn is to insult or defeat while roll is to cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

burn

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bernen, birnen, from (etyl) byrnan, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals.
  • She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
  • A sensation resembling such an injury.
  • chili burn from eating hot peppers
  • The act of burning something.
  • They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn .}}
  • Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
  • One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn !
  • (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult.
  • tobacco
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002
  • , year_published= , publisher=Waterside Press , editor=Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr , author=Tom Wickham , title=Prison Writing , chapter=A Day In The Wrong Life , edition=Sixteenth Edition citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7IpXLpypY7IC&pg=PA26 , isbn=9781872870403 , page=26 , passage=TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
  • , year_published= , publisher=Chipmunkapublishing ltd , author=S. Drake , title=A Cry for Help , section=Chapter 7 citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LvdPsZHXG3kC&pg=PA94 , isbn=9781847470010 , page=94 , passage=“Any of you want to borrow some burn ,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
  • , year_published= , publisher=Policy Press , editor=Peter Squires , author= , title=Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice , chapter= , volume= , volume_plain= , section= citation , pageurl= , isbn=9781861347305 1861347308 , page=23 , passage=It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco]
  • * 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
  • As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.
  • The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
  • They have a good burn .
  • A disease in vegetables; brand.
  • An effective insult.
  • Derived terms
    * burn-in * chemical burn * first-degree burn * freezer burn * rugburn * friction burn * carpet burn * outburn * powder burn * second-degree burn * sideburns * slow burn * sunburn * third-degree burn

    Verb

  • (lb) To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • (lb) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
  • :
  • (lb) To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
  • :
  • (lb) To sunburn.
  • :
  • To accidentally touch a moving stone.
  • To cause to be consumed by fire.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
  • To overheat so as to make unusable.
  • :
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
  • (lb) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
  • :
  • (lb) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
  • :
  • (lb) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:This tyrant fever burns me up.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
  • To cauterize.
  • To betray.
  • :
  • To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
  • :
  • (lb) To waste (time).
  • :
  • To insult or defeat.
  • :
  • In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.
  • (lb) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare (dodge)).
  • To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
  • :
  • To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
  • :
  • In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
  • :
  • Derived terms
    * burn a hole in one's pocket * * burn book * burn down * burn in * burn out * burn rubber * burn the roof * burn through * burn up * burner * burnout * ears are burning

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) burn, bourne, from (etyl) burne, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A stream.
  • * 1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  • THIS darksome burn , horseback brown,
    His rollrock highroad roaring down,
    In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
    Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
  • * 1881 , :
  • He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn , and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 105:
  • When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.

    roll

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls', and '''rolls''', and ' rolls .
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.
  • To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
  • To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up .
  • To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
  • The cloth rolls''' unevenly; the snow '''rolls well.
  • (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
  • (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
  • To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
  • To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
  • The pastry rolls well.
  • (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • (chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
  • (chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
  • To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  • To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
  • * 2006 , Chris McKenna, "Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens", Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, November 21, [http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321].
  • "This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
  • (gaming, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
  • (gaming) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
  • To have a rolling aspect.
  • (gaming) To create a new character in a role-playing game.
  • (computing) To generate a random number.
  • To turn over and over.
  • To tumble in gymnastics.
  • (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
  • To beat up.
  • *
  • (slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
  • (slang) To betray secrets.
  • (informal) To act.
  • * 2001 September 11, (Todd Beamer):
  • Let's roll !
  • (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  • * 2000 , Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance , Writers Club Press, ISBN 9780595156115, page 15:
  • Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”
  • * 2003 , Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear (novel), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3, page 169:
  • The crowd was rolling' on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was ' rolling .
  • * unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online , Lexington Books (2007), ISBN 978-0-7391-1455-1
  • So the quesion is When you are rolling' what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m ' rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds
  • (of a camera) To film.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 15, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
  • , title= Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , passage=So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.}}
  • To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
  • The years roll on.
  • To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • * Prior
  • what different sorrows did within thee roll
  • To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
  • The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
  • Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.

    Derived terms

    * let's roll * rollable * roller * roll in the aisles * roll off * roll off the tongue * roll on * roll out * roll-out * roll-over * roll over * roll the dice * roll up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  • the roll of a ball
    Look at the roll of the waves.
  • That which rolls; a roller.
  • # A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  • # One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
  • to pass rails through the rolls
  • # That which is rolled up.
  • a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
  • # A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  • #* Prior
  • Busy angels spread / The lasting roll , recording what we say.
  • # Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  • #* Sir M. Hale
  • The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.
  • #* Sir J. Davies
  • The roll and list of that army doth remain.
  • # A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
  • a roll''' of carpeting; a '''roll of ribbon
  • # A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  • A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
  • (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
  • (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
  • A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  • Hear the roll of cannon.
    Hear the roll of thunder.
  • The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
  • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 594:
  • Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.
  • the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
  • Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
  • The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
  • Make your roll.
    Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
  • A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .
  • He is on a roll tonight.
  • A training match for a fighting dog.
  • Derived terms

    * bread roll * enrol, enroll * roll cage * roll call * roll-to-roll * sausage roll * Swiss roll

    See also

    * Rolls